2. End the Department of Justice “interference and raids in states with medical marijuana laws.” (Uh, like California.) And the federal government should launch a “comprehensive study” to produce recommendations for the reform of “our nation’s marijuana laws.”

The CA Dem Party included this wish list in a resolution, one of many passed at a weekend executive board confab. (And for the Dems, the exec board is composed of like 300 people. It takes a village, you know…a village the size of Concord, apparently. But we digress.)

That resolution shout-out was enough for the Marijuana Majority campaign to give the Dems a shout-out on its list of cannabis-friendlies — a roll which include Pat Robertson (really) and Morgan Freeman.

To be clear, the party is definitely NOT on record supporting legalization. Never has been. Not in the platform. But this is another tiny step of the mainstream politicos toward supporting the regulated use of cannabis. In 2010, the party passed a resolution that was similarly marijuana friendly, particularly how it could be regulated and taxed. The party was neutral on Prop 19, the legalization of marijuana statewide ballot measure that failed in 2010.

So this is not huge, huge news. Especially after our conversation with CA Dem Party chair John Burton from a few years back when marijuana legalization was on the ballot. The Chairman saw it as a get-out-the-vote tool for the yutes. To the Shaky Hand Productions Video Archive and Wine Cellar: